Скачать или смотреть The Dark History of Oradour-sur-Glane | a War Crime Documentary

This video explores the dark history of Oradour-sur-Glane, a French village destroyed in June 1944 by an SS unit during the Second World War. Through historical accounts, survivor testimonies, and archival evidence, it traces how an ordinary rural community became the site of one of the most notorious massacres in Nazi-occupied France, placing the events within the wider context of the war, occupation, and German reprisals against resistance activity.

The documentary also follows what happened after 1944: the search for truth, the controversial trials, and the long struggle over guilt, memory, and justice in postwar France and Germany. It looks at how Oradour-sur-Glane was preserved as a “martyred village,” how it became a symbol in French and European memory, and how the site still raises difficult questions about responsibility, trauma, and the way we remember wartime atrocities today.